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OMG Girlfriend, How to Lose a Guy in HD!


Replacing the six-year-old DVD edition is a new "Deluxe" DVD and, for the first time ever, the King of the Empties' romcom calling card is on Blu-ray. I have something of a connection to this movie, in that the writers of the book and I both went to Florida State (different years and I've never met them). It's completely formulaic chick flick crap, but I'm watching it with the intention of cracking the formula so that I too can be filthy rich some day. Fun fact: 17 Again director Burr Steers has a co-writing credit!

According to reviews I can find of the original DVD, they dumped some location shooting featurettes but retained the 2003 Director's Commentary, Deleted Scenes [SD 9:30] with optional Director's Commentary, and Keith Urban "Somebody Like You" Music Video [SD].

There are three newly-added featurettes on both the DVD & Blu. First up is How to Make a Movie in 2 Years [HD 16:54], a "how it happened" piece that opens with the book's writers Jeannie & Michele sitting in a bar. The amount of Botox and plastic surgery seen in this featurette alone is more funny than the movie ever gets. Why the Sexes Battle [HD 5:00] has a couple experts talking about stuff that put most people to sleep in Intro to Cultural Anthropology in a way that manages to be brisk but not slight. Aside from missing an apostrophe in its title, Girls Night Out [HD 5:15] features more of the book's writers relating anecdotes form their lives that inspired the book.